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[Updated at 10:30 p.m. ET] A man who helped subdue the gunman in Saturday's Arizona shooting spree said the man was trying to reload when he was tackled to the ground.
"He was ready for war. He was not playing around," Joe Zamudio told CNN. "He was going to keep shooting. It was not over. He had just ran out of bullets."
The gun, which another bystander had wrestled from the gunman, was empty and cocked open, and the shooter had another magazine at the ready, Zamudio said.
Zamudio pinned him to the ground until police showed up. The suspect, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody of the Pima County Sheriff's Office, and authorities are obtaining search warrants for a residence and his vehicle. Authorities also are seeking a person of interest but his suspected connection to the incident is unclear.
Loughner is accused of shooting 18 people, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a third-term Democrat who had organized the "Congress on Your Corner" meet and greet. Authorities believe the gunman had specifically targeted Giffords. She is in critical condition after undergoing surgery for a single gunshot wound to the head, but doctors said they are optimistic over her prospects for recovery.
Eleven others were wounded in the shooting and six are dead, among them U.S. District Court Judge John Rolls, a friend of Giffords' who had stopped by the event to say hello after attending Mass, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said.
Also killed was Giffords staffer Gabe Zimmerman, director of community outreach who had coordinated the event to introduce Giffords to her constituents.
A 9-year-old girl also was killed.
The shooting sent shock waves through Washington, where Giffords was regarded as gracious and kind, a moderate Democrat known for her dedication to her constituents and willingness to work across party lines.
In light of the shootings, all legislation on the House schedule for the coming week has been postponed, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced in a statement.
Americans also struggled to come to terms with the event. Many of them showed up to a vigil at the Arizona State Capitol to pray together and share their thoughts.
In the Twitterverse, theories abounded as to the gunman's motivation. Meanwhile, while speaking to the press , the sheriff lamented "the vitriolic rhetoric" in American political discourse, suggesting it played a role in the shooting.
"This has not become the nice United States of America that most of us grew up in and I think its time we do the soul-searching," he said.
"The anger, the hatred the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous and unfortunately, Arizona has become the capital. We have become the mecca of prejudice and bigotry."
[Updated at 10:00 p.m. ET] A House vote scheduled for Monday on whether to repeal health care legislation has been postponed after Saturday's shooting.
All legislation on the House schedule for the coming week has been postponed in a decision by leaders of both political parties in the House so "we can take whatever actions may be necessary in light of today's tragedy," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said in a statement.
[Updated at 9:13 p.m. ET] Some who knew Giffords and others who just wanted an outlet for emotions in the wake of the shooting rampage gathered on Capitol Hill Saturday night to honor the victims.
More than 50 marchers braved subfreezing temperatures and gusty winds to march to the Capitol and up the west steps to hold the vigil.
[Updated at 8:55 p.m. ET] A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation says the Glock model 19 used in the shootings was purchased legally. The official did not have details at this time as to when and where the gun was purchased.
The gun was loaded with a 30-round magazine. The official said it is likely the extended magazine used in the shooting was purchased separately and at a different time. The official said such a magazine does not automatically come with a weapons purchase and that it would be extremely rare for them to be sold together in one purchase.
The official said the suspect had purchased another gun a few years ago but this person did not know the details about what happened to that weapon and if the alleged shooter still owned it.
[Updated at 8:23 p.m. ET] Officials are not convinced that the suspected gunman acted alone, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told reporters.
Law enforcement is actively searching for a "person of interest" who is a white male in his 50s believed to have assisted the suspect in a shooting, Dupnik said.
A suspect who Dupnik would not name is in the custody of the Pima County Sheriff's Office, he said. The suspect has had previous contact with law enforcement "regarding threats" to kill, Dupnik said, and described him as having a "troubled past."
CNN has confirmed that the suspect's name is Jared Lee Loughner, 22, whose apparent online footprint professes an distrust of government and a fondness for books such as "Mein Kampf," "The Communist Manifesto," "Peter Pan" and "The Republic."
"There's reason to believe this individual has a mental issue and I think that people who are unbalanced are especially susceptible to vitriol," he said.
"Vitriol" in public debate was a recurring theme in Dupnik's remarks as he blasted the media for "the vitriolic rhetoric" heard on television and radio.
[Updated at 7:57 p.m. ET] Gabe Zimmerman, director of community outreach for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was among those killed in Saturday's shooting at a constituents meeting outside a Tucson Safeway, Gifford press secretary CJ Karamargin said.
Zimmerman was the staff member who set up today's event in Giffords' district, Karamargin said. The Tucson native was engaged to be married.
[Updated at 7:43 p.m. ET] The Army said in a statement that the suspect in the shooting was never in the Army.
"He attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected for service. In accordance with the Privacy Act, we will not discuss why he was rejected," the Army said in a statement.
[Updated at 7:21 p.m. ET] Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect, had a limited presence on social-media sites, including YouTube and MySpace. Here's a sampling of some of the messages that CNN found on Loughner's pages:
December 26, 2010: I'm not going to change the mistakes, you don't know – funny! (I think the CIA watches my-space)
December 30, 2010: I now understand a certain word - Cult!
December 15, 2010: If I define terrorist then a terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially as a political weapon.
I define terrorist.
Thus a terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially
as a political weapon.
If you call me a terrorist then the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem.
You call me a terrorist.
Thus the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem.
December 15, 2010: The majority of citizens in the United States of America have never read the United States of America's Constitution.
You don't have to accept the federalist laws.
Nonetheless, read the United States of America's Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous laws.
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Read more about Loughner's digital footprint on CNN.com
[Updated at 7:12 p.m. ET] The University of Arizona's men's basketball game against Stanford University has been postponed following the shootings.
"The University feels the game should be delayed with deep respect to the victims and families impacted by this tragedy," Arizona athletics director Greg Byrne said.
The game will be played at 12:30 p.m. MST Sunday.
[Updated at 6:48 p.m. ET] Saturday's deadly shootings at an Arizona constituency meeting outside a Tucson Safeway appear to have "no nexus to terrorism," a law enforcement official said.
This official did not know if there had been any recent threat against Rep Giffords but said there are frequent threats to various members of Congress, mostly via phone calls or e-mails, or mailed threats.
[Updated at 6:30 p.m. ET] U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts released this statement on the death of U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Roll, who was killed in the shootings:
"Chief Judge John Roll was a wise jurist who selflessly served Arizona and the nation with great distinction, as attorney and judge, for more than 35 years. I express my deepest condolences to his wife Maureen and his children, as well as the other victims and their families. Chief Judge Roll's death is a somber reminder of the importance of the rule of law and the sacrifices of those who work to secure it."
[Updated at 6:16 p.m. ET] The Tea Party released this statement regarding the shootings:
"We at the Tea Party Express are shocked and saddened to hear about the terrible tragedy that took place in Tucson today. It is appalling that anyone would commit such unthinkable violence against Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford, her staff, a sitting federal judge and the many other victims and families impacted.
"These heinous crimes have no place in America, and they are especially grievous when committed against our elected officials. Spirited debate is desirable in our country, but it only should be the clash of ideas. An attack on anyone for political purposes, if that was a factor in this shooting, is an attack on the democratic process. We join with everyone in vociferously condemning it."
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[Updated at 5:41 p.m. ET] Who is Gabrielle Giffords? She's a Democrat who was first elected in 2006. She has served as chairwoman of the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee and also holds seats on the House Science and Technology and Armed Services committees.
She won her third term in a closely contested race against a Tea Party-sponsored candidate and was one of three Democratic legislators who reported vandalism at their offices following the March vote on health care reform.
She is married to Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, a NASA astronaut who is scheduled to lead a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. The two married in 2007, after meeting four years prior in China, as young leaders selected by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Giffords told the New York Times in her wedding announcement.
The article described their courtship as a drawn-out affair between two deeply committed civic servants who slowly found their way to each other. When they met, Giffords was seeing someone and Kelly was married.
After Giffords split from her boyfriend, she invited Kelly to join her on a tour of the Arizona State Prison in Florence.
"I'd been working on legislation dealing with capital punishment. Mark is the son of police officers — well, he just really wanted to sit in 'the chair,' " she told the newspaper.
The two married three years later, they married at an organic produce farm in Amado, Arizona, called Agua Linda. An avid recycler, Giffords wore a Vera Wang gown borrowed from a friend.
"To a bride who moves at a velocity that exceeds that of anyone else in Washington, and a groom who moves at a velocity that exceeds 17,000 miles per hour," a wedding guest said in a toast to the couple.
[Updated at 5:20 p.m. ET] Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer expressed condolences for the shooting victims - 6 are dead and 12 injured.
"I am just heartbroken. Gabby (Giffords) is more than just a colleague she is a friend. She has always been a noble public servant," an emotional Brewer said, pausing for composure.
"I ask the people of Arizona and the people of America to keep the victims and their families in their prayers, and pray for their recovery and pray that in Arizona we never have to experience a tragedy like this ever again."
Giffords publicized the "Congress on Your Corner" meet-up at the Safeway in her southern Arizona district on her Twitter account.
Judge John Roll, the chief judge on the U.S. District Court for Arizona, was among 6 people killed, along with a 9-year-old girl, officials said.
Witnesses said the gunman shot Giffords at point blank range through the head and then continued firing. The suspect, identified by law enforcement sources as Jared Lee Loughner, has been taken into custody.
[Updated at 4:52 p.m. ET] Chief Judge John Roll was among 6 people killed at an Arizona constituent meeting outside a Tucson grocery store Saturday.
[Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET] The suspect in a shooting at an Arizona constituent meeting outside a Tucson grocery story is a white male born in 1988, CNN's Jeanne Meserve has confirmed from a federal law enforcement source.
Six people have died, including a 9-year-old girl, and 12 were injured, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities said.
[Updated at 4:07 p.m. ET] Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition and a young child has died after a shooting at a political meeting at an Arizona grocery store, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.
Giffords, who was hosting the event, is under anesthesia after undergoing surgery for a single gunshot wound to the head "through and through," said Dr. Peter Rhee, Trauma Director at the University Medical Center in Tucson.
"The Congresswoman is not deceased. She is in critical condition," Rhee said in a press conference. "I am very optimistic about recovery."
Giffords publicized the "Congress on Your Corner" meet-up at the Safeway in her southern Arizona district on her Twitter account.
[Updated at 3:40 p.m. ET] Six people have died and 12 - including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords - were injured in a shooting at a political meeting at a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store Saturday, according to Rick Kastigar of the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
[Updated at 3:20 p.m. ET] A suspect is in custody in the shootings of at least 12 people, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at a constituent meeting at an Arizona grocery store, the U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement.
"The suspect is in custody. No further details on the motive or other victims are available at this time," the statement said. "The U.S. Capitol Police are directly involved in this investigation. As more information is developed, it will be provided. In the interim, all Members and staff are advised to take reasonable and prudent precautions regarding their personal security."
A statement from President Obama confirmed that some people had died.
"This morning, in an unspeakable tragedy, a number of Americans were shot in Tucson, Arizona, at a constituent meeting with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. And while we are continuing to receive information, we know that some have passed away, and that Representative Giffords is gravely wounded," he said.
"We do not yet have all the answers. What we do know is that such a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society. I ask all Americans to join me and Michelle in keeping Representative Giffords, the victims of this tragedy, and their families in our prayers."
[Updated at 3:00 p.m. ET] Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is currently undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound to the head, a spokeswoman for the University Medical Center in Tucson said.
Nine patients were brought to the hospital, including a child. All of them are in either serious or critical condition and are undergoing surgery, spokeswoman Darci Slaten said.
A federal judge was also among those shot, a law enforcement official said. It is not clear whether he was among those taken to the hospital.
[Updated at 2:43 p.m. ET] There were conflicting reports Saturday about the condition of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords following a shooting Saturday at a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store. Giffords' press secretary said the congresswoman remains in surgery for her injuries, disputing an earlier report from a law enforcement source saying she had died.
[Updated at 2:23 p.m. ET] U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords died Saturday after a gunman opened fire at a Tucson, Arizona grocery store, a law enforcement source said. Giffords, who had been holding a meeting with constituents, was among at least 12 people shot.
[Updated at 1:51 p.m. ET] U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was among at least 12 people shot at a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store, a Democratic source told CNN's Dana Bash. The source called her injuries "pretty serious."
[Updated at 1:41 p.m. ET] U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents at a Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, where at least 12 people were injured in a shooting shortly after 10 a.m. MST Saturday, a spokesman for the Pima County sheriff's Department said. It is unclear whether Giffords was among those hurt.
"Several" people were shot Saturday at a grocery store in Tucson,
Arizona, a spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff's Department said. No other details were immediately available.
I'm sure it was a right wing birther nutjob..... Republicans are frothing at the mouth ...i'm sure .....its the only way they can get Jesse Kelley in the seat......
I am ashamed to listen to you all comments and no one not anyone talks about gun control reform. We absolutely have no need for guns nor the need to sell them at the rate we are selling them now. The policy of selling guns must be reformed. I myself have thought about and god has given a good plan for this reform. But nontheless if we lessen our gun in the streets then we have have no reason to defend ourselves at home. Who are we trying to kill or what are we trying to pretend. We already have very powerful army we dont need to prove this at home. Think all the crimes that have been commited have never been stopped by the opposite party by the use of his gun. It seems like they have always been unexpected crimes. Please gun control is necessary no matter what.
It is indeed a sad day for Democracy. I truly pray that this shooting was the result of a random act of violence and not tied to any political movement. I thought I lived in a country where we settle our differences by ballot and not bullet.
There are people who seem to get all their exercise jumping to conclusions.
Gabrielle, I pray that the Lord Strengthen You and your family right now. I pray that He hold you in His arms and keep you close to His heart. I pray that if you're not ready to meet Jesus right now that You not die and that He prolong your life until you are. May He remember all of your kindness and mercy that you've shown to others now and give you a hope in Christ, in Jesus name Amen.
You know Rep. Giffords is Jewish, right?
Let us not forget conservative pundits who consistently use fear mongering as opposed to facts as a means to discredit the Democrats.
http://reeferideas.blogspot.com/2011/01/az-rep-giffords-shot-updated.html Live Updates keep track!!! Shes not dead
Speak out about this and gun control
Late breaking from real News Channel, she is still alive and in surgery.
And so it begins - the TeaPalin Taliban's war against democracy. NOT Democrats - democracy. It's rather difficult to resolve the "coincidence" of this assassination attempt and the fascist hate poster one of Palin's thousand PACs stuck up all over the country with the image of Gabrielle Giffords and a rifle-sight crosshair superimposed over her head. Speaking of "head," Headless Jan Brewer must be cackling with glee that her "carry a concealed weapon wherever you are" law has borne the fruit she was hoping for so quickly.
The 2nd American Civil War has begun.
This is a tragedy. Even more sad people are just desperately trying now to spin this in their relevent direction.
I would also like to comment:
"this is why "gun free zones" are easy places for nuts to target."
> When someone walks up and shoot you in the head.. Can we please stop playing politics like some f##$@ing children!
is there a way to switch out your anchor .... i'm finding it VERY difficult to continue to watch CNN's coverage, because "marty" is just not cutting it. OMG. i'd rather not have to switch back and forth between CNN and MSNBC. (where is Don Lemons or Fred?)
Do you blame the idiot who pulled the trigger or do you put blame on all those idiots who drove him to it? I guess words do kill. They do have consequences. You can't just say anything. You can't just spew lies. If we are going to fix any of this we have to start with the liars who spew crap on a daily basis. Stop with your poison. Not everyone can discern that 90% of what you say is BS.
Calm down fanatical leader of a lynch mob. Turn your tv off for a year and spend that time in nature and with Christ before you give yourself a heart attack.
You are right – limbaugh, beck, o;reilly, palin, bachmann, et al – THEY should be held accountable for their hate-mongering – spewing hate and telling people to use guns if the vote doen't get the result they desire. GO AFTER THE SOURCE OF THIS BEHAVIOR.
Very very sad news.
People think straight and be careful what you write.
maybe it is time for the federal government to shift its investigation away from wikileaks and towards charging Sarah Palin with terrorism !
I would be worried if I were Palin. Do they think only right-wing nuts have guns? This is an act of Civil War.
Good going CNN Media you have been pushing for this and helping to incite the ignorant Republican tea baggers.
I turned off 360 with Anderson Cooper last night because he started off with backing the Republican Party's try at repealing the healthcare. You should be backing Healthcare as it may not be perfect but it is a hell of a lot better than what we had.
Carring guns just shouts at your stupidity as there just isn't many dangerous or wild animals walking down main street.


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Richard Alley's studies of the role of ice sheets in climate change have earned him various awards, a PBS special, and have made him a repeat performer at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. When I first saw him speak a few years ago, he argued that the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland play a huge role in controlling sea levels. Mountain glaciers don't hold nearly as much water, while the thermal expansion of water in the oceans is a slower and more predictable process.
The ice sheets, in contrast, have been a big unknown. At the time, we didn't yet fully understand how much of them might melt, or how quickly they might dump water into the oceans.
Alley was back at this year's meeting, and his news was mixed. As he predicted in his earlier appearance, a few years of intensive study have helped narrow down some of the uncertainties. And, while the news is (relatively) good in Greenland, some of the results from Antarctica are decidedly worrying.
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Alley described an ice sheet as a big pile of ice that wants to spread slowly, a spreading that would put more of its mass into the oceans and raise sea levels. Anything that speeds up that spreading is bad news for us, since it would give us less time to get carbon emissions under control and create a more sudden rise in sea levels that would be harder to adapt to.
Two of the big unknowns that Alley's been studying can help accelerate the spread of the ice cap into the oceans. In Greenland, the summer melt creates large lakes of meltwater on the ice cap's surface, which drain suddenly, pouring huge volumes of water to the base of the ice. This can lubricate its flow over the underlying rocks, and accelerate the ice cap's spread. In Antarctica, this sort of melting isn't as much of an issue; instead, exit glaciers carry ice from the continent's interior to the ocean. Because these flow slowly through narrow outlets, he compared them to flying buttresses, the architectural features that hold up the pile of rocks that comprise Medieval cathedrals.
In the time since his last talk, Alley felt that we'd come to terms with Greenland. The water from the summer melt does reach the bottom of the ice sheet, and it does accelerate its movement to some degree. But the terrain underneath the ice is very bumpy, which limits how easily the ice can flow even when water is present. As such, he thinks that Greenland's contribution to future sea level rises will be relatively slow and steady—it will melt, but it won't do anything sudden and unexpected.
The news was worse from Antarctica. Here, work by Alley and others has focused on the dynamics of exit glaciers that hold back the flow of large glaciers near the West Antarctic Peninsula. The key thing that regulates the flow of these glaciers is what's called a "grounding line," or the place where the glacier's end is in contact both with the ocean floor and with the ocean itself (this is in contrast to the floating ice that sometimes spreads past this site).
While a glacier is on the grounding line, Alley said there are a lot of feedbacks that tend to keep it there. The sediment it carries gets dumped there, raising the ocean bottom. The Earth itself, with less ice above it, rebounds from the weight that was present during the last ice age, also keeping the contact between the ice and ocean floor intact. These and a few other feedbacks help keep the grounding line stable even as rising temperatures would otherwise tend to force the glacier to break up and retreat.
The problem is that, when the feedbacks are finally overcome, the grounding line fails catastrophically, and the ice tends to retreat rapidly to the next potential grounding line. This behavior shows up in models of the glacier's behavior, and it's apparent in imaging of the ground under the ice, where there's little sign of retreat from past melts outside a handful of grounding lines.
What does this mean for the particular glacier Alley chose to focus on? If its current grounding line fails, there's another a bit behind it that it will likely retreat to. If that one fails, however, there's enough ice between it and the one behind that to raise sea levels by two meters. And, from a geological perspective, that retreat could occur in a flash—fast enough to obviate any long term plans for adaptation.
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That's worrying on its own. But it's a special problem, Alley argued, because of the way policy makers have approached sea level rise. To begin with, they've tended to assume that any rise will be gradual and slow. Alley blamed this in part on the reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—its most recent report provided a conservative estimate, and failed to convey the large uncertainties in what we know about ice sheet behavior.
The other problem, in his view, is that economists also assumed that people would be rational actors, and either take preventative measures or stop investing any money in property that would inevitably wind up under water. Neither of those have happened. Alley said that he and many others had been teaching introductory geology classes that discuss how conditions in New Orleans made something like Katrina inevitable, but that didn't actually result in any investment in infrastructure to handle the problems. Similarly, some of the problems New York City faced during Sandy had been accurately predicted a number of years in advance.
The lack of economic rationality, however, is also apparent after the events have occurred. Rather than focus on a rational evaluation of future risks, we've generally pumped money into rebuilding in precisely the same places that have just been wiped out.
A better model for how to deal with this risk, in Alley's view, is how we handle road safety. For most of us, the typical commute involves, at worst, being stuck in a bit of traffic and having the radio play some awful music. The worst case is a long, bumper-to-bumper crawl during an hour-long test of the emergency broadcast system. Only very rarely does any of us get smacked into by a drunk driver. And yet we put a tremendous effort into dealing with that rare possibility, including funding awareness campaigns, dedicating police enforcement activity, and designing safety features into our vehicles.
Given what he's seen in the Antarctic, Alley thinks we should be following something more like the drunk driver model.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Wisconsin bumped and grinded its way into the Final Four.
Frank Kaminsky had 28 points and 11 rebounds for Wisconsin, rallying the Badgers to a 64-63 overtime victory against Arizona in the West Region final Saturday night.
The Badgers (30-7) advanced to their first Final Four appearance since 2000 on Saturday night, and first for 69-year-old coach Bo Ryan, who earned his 704th career victory.
Nick Johnson had the ball with a chance to win, but he missed a shot that came just after the buzzer for Arizona (33-5), the top-seeded team that has yet to win a West Region final in Anaheim in four tries. Johnson led the Wildcats with 16 points, and Aaron Gordon had 18 rebounds in the relentlessly physical game.


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Anderson Cooper asks Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California to provide evidence of his claim the president "knew this was a terrorist attack."
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Filed under: Barack Obama • Benghazi • Libya • President Barack Obama • Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Get over it people, this is just the latest in a series of distractions designed by the GOP to get your mind off of their shortcomings! Bush was directly responsible for far more deaths and I don't recall any of you crying about them!
We need to get him out...he refuses to respond to anyone in his distract that disagrees with his point of view. I live here I deserve his attention too.
Regarding the Benghazi attacks and who, if anyone was lying, put yourself in the president's shoes. If I was president and I didn't get the straight story from my advisers right away, I would be hopping mad and heads would be rolling. How happy would you be with your staff if they decided to withhold crucial information from you until after the election? The idea that somehow the president didn't have the full story including alternative opinions from different sources until after the election just doesn't hold water.
The situation with Ambassador Rice is even odder. If I was her I would be resigning in disgust from an administration that clearly gave her bogus information and set her up to give a load of manure to the press. By the time she gave her interview, five days after the event, they clearly knew what was going on. By that time either she was just completely out of the loop, or they left her with bogus info deliberately. Either way, her credibility is seriously degraded.
Wow, you somehow managed to essentially miss every single point. The General says it was unclear immediately that the exact group was Al-Qaeda. And Rice has been proven to exactly reflect that. Why is it a given that our intelligence agencies would immediately know the exact facts of everyone and everything that happened immediately. Two, where is it written that the government must disclose every single piece of classified information immediately? Ever consider they did not want to disclose everything they knew so that they could catch the attackers?
Anderson, love your show! Been a fan of yours since Channel 1 days. Really appreciate your efforts to try and get the truth out of Dana Rohrabacher. I don't think the "truth" is in him. So very tired of the lies and constant attempts to make our President look bad. The election is over. We (Obama) won, they lost. The right need to get over it and move on. The "right" need to find a way to compromise or they will be gone in 2014. The people have spoken.
No Marry, YOU have spoken. This is exactly the type of logic that continues to inspire double standards in the media. Instead of getting to the bottom of what actually happened, you and others blame republicans for asking questions. Its quite astonishing, really. I don't think you'll find "truth" in any potential bit of information that may make Obama look less favorably.
I wish Anderson had pointed out that the NY Times continues to confirm that the Benghazi incident was mix of reaction to the anti-Muslin video AND a loosely planned terrorist attack. So the video DID play an important role is what transpired. The Republican line continues to be that there was no protest to a video. Anyone with a memory knows that protests went one for weeks all over the Middle East in reaction to the video. Benghazi was part of this flood of violence. Sad thing is these facts seem to be lost in all the the Republican drumbeat that it was a terrorist attack alone, and the administration does not like to acknowledge "terrorism" (a ridiculous claim) so therefore just made up the video story. Only good reporting is going to correct this misinformation campaign.
Just ask the question, if they were watching this attack by way of a drone for hours why didn't they send help??
One, there were two separate attacks. The consolote, and then the annex. So it was not one prolonged battle. Two, within 24 minutes there were local CIA people sent. Three, the availabliity of relief originally reported by Fox were not accurate. The emergency response team supposedly in Greece were in fact coming back from an exercise in Guam. The Special forces had to be assembled from spots around Europe and did not arrive in Italy until it had ended. Finally, the two generals in charge or the region both said they not only didn't have any way to immediately intervene, but even had they, they would not have put more troops in harms way without greater knowledge of the situation. Also, since when can we just para drop troops into other countries any time we wish?
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Just one month ago, the Chromebook Pixel was little more than a poorly sourced rumor. (And personally, while I didn't quite dismiss it out of hand I came pretty close.) Google was releasing a high-end Chromebook with a touchscreen? And that touchscreen would boast a better pixel density than either of the Retina MacBook Pros? The rumor definitely didn't fit in with the latest (and by all accounts, most successful) wave of Chromebooks, which have turned heads not least because they're cheaper than any Chromebooks have been so far.
And yet, here we are: the Chromebook Pixel is real, it's on my desk, and it starts at $1,299. For the kind of hardware we're talking about—state-of-the-art Intel processors, a high-density touchscreen, and build quality to rival the best from both the Windows and Apple ecosystems—that price tag isn't unreasonable. However, the Pixel is still running Chrome OS. Whether your Chromebook costs $199 or $1,299, that operating system still has all of the same features: it relies on constant Internet connectivity, it seeks to replace traditional desktop apps with Web apps, and it's mostly just a Web browser running on top of a lightweight Linux distribution.
The question is, does this combination make sense? Are the professionals and power users who are willing to spend that kind of money on a computer the same kind of people who can live within Chrome OS' limitations?
Body and build quality
|Specs at a glance: Google Chromebook Pixel
|2560×1700 at 12.85" (239 ppi)
|Chrome OS
|1.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
|4GB 1600MHz DDR3
|Intel HD 4000 Graphics (integrated)
|32 or 64GB solid-state drive
|Dual-band 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0, USB Ethernet dongle, optional LTE
|2x USB 2.0, mini DisplayPort, card reader, headphones
|11.72 × 8.84 × 0.64" (297.7 x 224.6 x 16.2 mm)
|3.35 lbs (1.52 kg)
|1 year
|Starting price
|Price as reviewed
|Other perks
|Webcam, 1TB of Google Drive storage for three years, 12 free GoGo Inflight Internet sessions, 100MB of Verizon Wireless data per month for two years (LTE model only)
The body of the Pixel is one solid gray anodized aluminum rectangle. It lacks the curves or tapering that define many Ultrabooks, and it's a consistent 0.64" thick throughout. This is about a tenth of an inch thinner than Apple's 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and, at 3.35 pounds, the Pixel is also just a bit lighter than that laptop (which weighs 3.57 pounds all told). This means the Pixel is neither Ultrabook-thin nor Ultrabook-light, but it's still pretty easy to sling in a bag and carry around, even if you're used to something a bit lighter.
The all-aluminum construction is very solid, and the palm rest and keyboard don't bend or flex even a little under pressure. The laptop is all clean, straight lines with just a couple of exceptions: the indentation in the front that's used to lift the lid (an action that doesn't budge the laptop's base), and the rounded hinge (which protrudes from the back of the laptop). There's also the standard array of ports: two USB 2.0 ports, a mini-DisplayPort, and a headphone jack on the laptop's left side, and an SD card slot and (optional) SIM card slot on the right.
Google even went so far as to hide normal computer-y things from view—the speakers are hidden underneath the keyboard rather than behind cutouts, there are no visible screws, and the system's air vent (located at the back of the laptop near the hinge) is also essentially invisible. The device's two Chrome labels, one on the hinge and one above the keyboard, are understated and don't use the colorful Chrome logo as seen on other Chromebooks.
The device's sole visual flair consists of three horizontal strips near the top of the lid—two of these, on the left and right sides of the lid, are cutouts for the Pixel's wireless antennas. The strip in the middle is a lightbar that can flash in different colors. When the machine is powered on or put to sleep, the strip briefly flashes blue, red, yellow, and green; when the computer is in use the light is a solid (but gently pulsating) blue. It's a unique take on the traditional power LED, and it's a touch that further emphasizes the attention given to the Pixel's design.
We found that the Pixel actually runs a bit warm under moderate use—running Pandora in one tab while typing within Google Drive in another was enough to make the laptop's fan kick on. The back-left corner of the laptop (where we suspect the CPU is) gets pretty toasty, especially if the computer is resting on a cushioned surface rather than a flat one.
The speakers under the keyboard get pretty loud without sacrificing clarity, though as expected in a laptop there's not much bass to speak of. Google has also hidden a second microphone under the keyboard to help cancel noise from the keyboard during video chats, though Google told us the software to help with this wasn't quite ready yet and would ship with a future update. The webcam itself is competent but unremarkable, perfectly usable for Google Hangouts (but not Skype or other services without an extension in the Chrome Web Store).
The screen
The build quality is good, but Chromebook Pixel's screen is the star of the show, its raison d'etre. Every Chromebook we've reviewed up until now has used a screen commensurate with the devices' prices. Low-cost, low-quality panels with poor color and viewing angles have been the order of the day.
The Pixel is different from these panels in four important ways: the first is quality, and both the color and viewing angles on its touchscreen are excellent. They're fully up to the level of Apple's Retina MacBook Pros or the better Windows 8 Ultrabooks we've seen in recent months (we'll cherry-pick Dell's XPS 12 and Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga 13 as good examples). The display also gets quite bright, though the brighter settings will sap the machine's battery life fairly quickly (more on that later on).
The second difference is touch—the Pixel's display is also a ten-point capacitive touchscreen not dissimilar from those currently shipping in high-end Windows 8 laptops. Like those displays, both the screen and its bezel are coated by a sheet of glass that looks nice but is extremely glossy and reflective.
Despite sporting a touchscreen, Chrome OS doesn't yet do much to take advantage of it. No UI elements from the operating system have been tweaked to be more finger-friendly, and there definitely aren't any touch gestures meant to simplify navigation (as exist in Windows 8 and many other smartphone and tablet operating systems). Even within the Chrome browser itself, the only thing you can really do with touch is scroll. Pinch-to-zoom is supported by some Web apps (Google Maps is probably the most prominent), but not universally. We suspect that Chrome OS' list of touch features will grow over time, especially if the Pixel inspires other Chromebooks to pick up touch support (and it will probably be a boon to games like Angry Birds on the platform). But at the moment a touchscreen is in no way integral to the experience.
The third difference is the one that gives the Pixel its name: its screen uses a 12.85-inch 2560×1700 panel. At 239 PPI, this is even a bit denser than the 227 PPI of the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. The comparison to Apple's laptops is especially apt because the two operating systems take a similar approach to increasing screen density. They both choose to quadruple the resolution of a common display resolution and scale all of the text and graphics to 200 percent their normal display size, as opposed to the incremental (and sometimes messy) 140 percent and 180 percent scaling that Windows favors.
Because they take the same approach, the Chromebook Pixel's display shares all of the same virtues and shortcomings as the displays in the Retina MacBook Pros (and, for that matter, the Retina iPads and high-density Android tablets like the Nexus 10). Text, graphics, and applications that have been optimized for 200 percent scaling look crisp and clear, while images and apps that haven't been optimized look just a little fuzzy.
In Chrome OS, Google has done most of the heavy lifting to get the built-in applications (and its own Web apps) looking good on the high-density display. Step outside of Google's bubble and you'll find that the majority of sites and apps still haven't been optimized for these dense displays. None of this is Google's fault, and text in particular does look excellent on the screen, but the benefits aren't universal.
Finally, the fourth major difference: the aspect ratio. Most computers (and many phones and tablets) use a 16:9 aspect ratio, at least partly because this aspect ratio is widely used in TV shows and movies (and televisions themselves). Among those who use their computers primarily for computing, though, the loss of aspect ratios like 16:10 and 4:3—the sacrifice of vertical pixels in favor of horizontal pixels in a world where the vast majority of scrolling happens up-and-down and not side-to-side—has been a bit less than welcome. Google has used a 3:2 pixel ratio in this Chromebook, and this could also be rendered as 15:10, or just a little less wide than a 16:10 display given the same number of vertical pixels. Google's stated goal with this nonstandard aspect ratio is to reduce the amount of vertical scrolling you have to do. It's definitely a nice step up from the 1366×768 panels you usually see in low-end Chromebooks.
Google also mentioned to us that 3:2 is the same aspect ratio used by many DSLRs, which in their opinion should make the Pixel better for editing photos. There are two things wrong with this supposition: first, by virtue of being a Chromebook, most of the software that professional (and even amateur) photographers use to organize and edit their images isn't going to be available on the Pixel. Second, you still have to make room for the user interface of said imaging program. You often won't be manipulating the images in full-screen mode anyway.
All things considered, the Pixel's screen is excellent. But it will be held back somewhat until high-density screens (and sites and apps designed to take advantage of them) become the rule rather than the exception.
Keyboard and trackpad
Continuing in the same vein as the rest of the hardware, the keyboard and trackpad in the Pixel feel like they belong in a $1,300 laptop. Chromebooks do make some unconventional layout decisions—no "Windows" or "Command" key (depending on what ecosystem you're coming from); no dedicated caps lock key (though the Search key can be configured to act as a caps lock key in the browser's settings); and no dedicated Delete key (holding down Alt and pressing Backspace will do the trick). These are probably the most noticeable changes, but otherwise it's a pretty standard chiclet keyboard right down to the half-height arrow keys.
The plastic keys are all perfectly square and flat, and they're only very lightly textured. Key travel on the main keys is satisfying—comparable to the 13-inch MacBook Air's keyboard, but perhaps a little deeper—and they make a slightly more audible clacking sound as you type. (I find this more satisfying than the Air's, though I realize this will come down to personal taste). The row of function keys, situated at the top of the keyboard, has slightly more resistance to it than the main keys, and individual keys are also a bit wider than the standard keys. These things aren't really good or bad—they're just different.
The keyboard's backlight is nice and even and does a pretty good job of getting brighter and dimmer based on the ambient light wherever you're working. It also adapts to what you're doing—for instance, it will be brighter when you're typing than it is when you're watching a video, even if the ambient light is the same.
Moving on to the trackpad: the Pixel uses a black clickable glass trackpad with a matte texture that Google says has been "analyzed and honed using a laser microscope." Whatever they're doing, it feels nice.
It's clear from using it for a few days that the Pixel's trackpad benefits from the tight integration between the hardware and software sides of Google's house. Past Chromebooks have typically shipped with "good enough" trackpads that occasionally mis-interpret gestures, have issues with palm rejection, or are otherwise tweaky. But in our week or so with the Pixel, we had no major issues with either the sensitivity or the general performance of the Pixel's trackpad.
The problem here (if "problem" is even the right word) is the same one we had with the touchscreen—the Pixel has a lovely and accurate trackpad, and the software doesn't do a whole lot to take advantage of it. The fact that clicking and dragging, pinching to zoom, and two-finger scrolling all work predictably and without issue is a good start. But with a trackpad as good as this one, it feels like the operating system needs some more complex multitouch gestures. Google is positioning the Pixel as a Chromebook for professionals—anything it can do in the software to aid multitasking is going to appeal to that audience in particular.


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American Gangster Movie Review
American Gangster, another movie to hit us late, two months later to be precise. It had a great opening week-end in the US and is supposedly based on a true life story of a druglord of the seventies Frank Lucas. The film's a hit, although there is controversy surrounding the film. Frank Lucas has said that the film is only about 20 percent accurate. That would be expected because Lucas is portrayed as violent and unrepentant. The cop in the movie, Ritchie Roberts has also said the movie is inaccurate, particularly the parts where Lucas is shown as a family man. In all films which try to portray real-life events, such controversies abound, and if the director had stuck to proven facts the film would have been a documentary.
I was expecting a dark, violent film, but even though the violent scenes do make one want to look away, there are other parts of the movie which are very very different. The parts about Lucas' family, about what makes Lucas the man he is, about his wheeling and dealing. There is a lot about the cop too, Ritchie Roberts (Russell Crowe), a lot about what makes him tick, his family life, and why he is honest when all the cops around him are not.
Denzel Washington plays the suave drug dealer Frank Lucas who runs the drug business during the Vietnam war. He reportedly makes a million dollars a day by not just distributing but also sourcing the drugs straight from Vietnam, cutting out middle men. He uses his own relatives to distribute.
Russell Crowe does a great job as the lawyer cop Ritchie Roberts. So does Washington as Lucas. The whole story is a win-lose game between these two characters but what was realistic was that neither of the two knew who the other was, not until the end. I guess in real life there is hardly ever an actual stand-off between 'hero' and 'villain'. In this movie, the police are shown groping in the dark for clues, studying a hundred suspects and the criminals are those who couldn't care less about the actual personalities of the cops.
In this film the hero, or rather anti-hero, is Frank Lucas. Most of the movie is about him and this makes us sympathise with him, makes us wish he is never caught. The director, Ridley Scott, does remind us that the man is a cold blooded murderer and a conscienceless drug dealer. He does this by showing Lucas ruthlessly killing people and by contrasting Lucas' lavish lifestyle with that of young innocents who have fallen victim to drug abuse. Yet, we feel sympathy with Lucas. This is partly because Ritchie is not that likable or as interesting. Sure, he is honest, hardworking and committed to his job, but comes across as a bit dull. He has less screen time than Lucas in any case.
An attempt is made to bring out a contrast between these two men. A ruthless killer drug dealer who is nevertheless a family man who loves his wife and mother to distraction and an honest cop who cheats on his wife. In real life people are often a bundle of contradictions and that is what perhaps the director was trying to say.
Another thing I found interesting in the film was that the New York police of the early seventies are shown to be exceedingly corrupt (there are claims that this is inaccurate). Ritchie is unique because he is honest…so honest that no one wants to partner him. Having an honest reputation is something that will make all your colleagues shun you! I can't help thinking that this is the situation in India today, where an honest cop who stands up for the truth and fights for justice is an exception rather than the rule. He is constantly punished by the system.
This film was nominated for two Oscars, but it wasn't for Best Picture or for Best Actor. It was Ruby Dee, who plays Frank Lucas' mother, who was nominated as supporting actress and the other nomination was for Art Direction. Her performance is a poignant one and reminds us of how women, mothers and wives, can be torn between what is right and the love they have for their men. I found realism here too as both Lucas' wife Eva (Lymari Nadal) and his mother are aware that Lucas is a criminal. They also know that he is a killer…but they turn a blind eye. This is so different from Bollywood movies, where everything is black and white. The women who hang around the villain are either dumb molls and/or evil sidekicks or innocent babes completely unaware of what the man in their life is doing.
Overall, this movie is worth a watch. Not for kids though.
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February 6, 2008 12:35 pm
I just saw Rise of the Foot Soldier. If violence is your thing, it is a must watch.
@Nita: Judging from your review, I assume it is not for you. The amount of blood and violence in this movie made me uneasy. I was having dinner at the time too!
As for American Gangster, I didn't find the movie spectacular. It was OK. It felt like I had seen the movie before. I agree with the reviews that gave We own the night a higher rating, however both would have been a half star lower with me.
Did you notice the chest thumping scene? I have noticed that Denzel does that in quite a few movies. I think he does it in Training Day as well.
prax permalinkFebruary 6, 2008 2:17 pm
wow this is real real late a revew
i saw this almost a month plus ago
great film though – and based on real life
imagine if this would happen in mumbai !!!
the cop and the smuggler would be happy n rich
Raj permalinkFebruary 6, 2008 4:49 pm
//…A ruthless killer drug dealer who is nevertheless a family man who loves his wife and mother to distraction and an honest cop who cheats on his wife.//
//…how women, mothers and wives, can be torn between what is right and the love they have for their men. I found realism here too as both Lucas' wife Eva (Lymari Nadal) and his mother are aware that Lucas is a criminal. They also know that he is a killer…but they turn a blind eye.//
I have always suspected that women(mothers and wives) turn a blind eye to whatever their men do,if they love their men enough 🙂 Though,I simply cannot understand why 😕 It maybe because I am (an emotionally challenged) guy 😐
And thanks for these movie reviews.I rarely watch movies,I read the reviews first (through different media) and watch them only if they are exceptional or if the subject interests me enough 🙂
February 6, 2008 11:10 pm
@Nita: Rise of the foot soldier is about a guy who starts of as a leader of an English hooligan group, that goes to football matches to stir up violence. It is a true story based on his rise to a life of crime. The violence especially in the beginning half is brutal. Perhaps they could have done it with less violence, but in my perception that always creates a humane perception of the character.
February 6, 2008 11:16 pm
I usually watch movies without reading anything about them, just to have an unbaised mind. After the movie ended, I rated it just B or B-. I thought that the movie was too simple and practical.
Then my buddy told me that it was based on a true story and this caused a paradigm shift in my outlook. I'd rate it as A- now. It might match only 20% of actual events, but the movie is made in a way that seems very real life like. Thanks for the review 🙂
February 7, 2008 9:58 am
Nita, I am quite squeamish myself. I turn away at the sight of blood, even when I know it is fake! But I watched it anyway, and enjoyed it. I should have counted how many times I looked away though.
On second thoughts, better not to watch it. I wouldn't suggest it for anyone with a weak stomach or during or just after dinner!
urtead permalinkFebruary 7, 2008 11:29 am
I've read your blog a number of times and have enjoyed it, though this is my first time commenting. I just wanted to let you know that "American Gangster" was more highly rated than "We Own the Night" here in the USA. Check out the website rottentomatoes.com. The site compiles the opinions of all the major critics in the United States along with many of the lesser known ones and then gives an average. 55% of all critics gave "We Own the Night" a favorable rating, with 57% of the major critics liking it. The consensus (a short verdict created by the editors of the website after reading a lot of the reviews) was "bland characters, cliched dialogue and rickety plotting." On the other hand, "American Gangster" received a rating of 79%, and the top critics gave it a 76% rating. The consensus was "a gritty and entertaining throwback to classic gangster films."
Out of curiosity, is "No Country for Old Men" being released in India? Many here in the US believe that it was the best movie released in 2007. Because of its unconventional ending, many movie-goers and critics disliked the film greatly. I also was a bit dissatisfied with the ending, though I can say that without a doubt "No Country for Old Men" was the best film I have personally seen in at least a couple of years. "The Departed" was a great film, but it has nothing like the impact of "No Country."
Anyways, I was curious simply because where upwards of 90% of American critics thought the film was a masterpiece and the other ten percent almost exclusively fixed on the ending, many British critics were not so enthused with the effort as a whole. Often they wrote or commented that the film was in some ways a metaphor for the corruption of the "American Dream." I personally think such talk is nonsense. It is as if the British critics couldn't separate the film from its origin in the United States. Even the positive British reviews conformed to the respective reviewers often stereotypical idea of what an American film is and what an American film is supposed to be about. I even heard one reviewer on the BBC complain that the supposed genre of the film was a "thriller" and yet it ("No Country") did not conform to her idea of what a good thriller is! I couldn't believe that she was actually serious, but unfortunately she was.
Here's a question for you and anybody else willing to answer: are films often stereotyped unfairly by their origin? If a film is from Britain, France, India, or the United States, do people immediately associate a set of characteristics to the film, even if they have no prior knowledge of it? And are some cultures more or less restrictive of genre? For example, mixing genres, or being of no obvious genre, is usually good for a work's (film, play, or novel) artistic standing (ex: "Forrest Gump"–it won the Oscar for best picture, but what was it? An epic? A war movie? A romance? All of the above, or something else entirely?) Recently, in bookstores across America, booksellers have started to further differentiate novels by putting aside a section for "literary fiction." Literary fiction is characterized by not only NOT being one of the other genres (romance, horror, etc.), but also by being highly realistic and essentially focused on character development rather than plot. These are the types of books that win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer. When hearing about this new trend, John Updike, one of America's most venerable authors, sneered, "I guess I am a genre writer now." Is this attitude culturally specific or universal? Or is it an attitude more conforming to class, with the lower classes of many cultures sharing a similar opinion and the upper classes of many cultures sharing a similarly opposite opinion?
Ravi permalinkFebruary 12, 2008 1:30 am
I like Ridley scott's movies ever since I first watched "Gladiator". He did a good job with "American Gangster" I think it was ok among other recent gangster flicks. Though it is in no comparison with "The departed" but a good movie to watch on sunday afternoon.
I don't think "No country for old men" will be released in india any soon. I liked this movie because of its good camera work, and a great score that suites the mood of the film. I liked the performances of all of them but the ending is a bit shabby I felt like I had seen the same ending in some other movie. Its a great movie though!
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If you really want to keep away from violence then do not watch "the hills have eyes – part 1& 2" and "Freakshow".
American gangster in terms of violence I think its Ok.


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As we all know, it's not easy to outdo the Tea Party gang in Congress for sheer nuttiness, but there are at least a few Republicans in state legislatures who are trying their darnedest.
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My first impression after opening the box: The Nexus 4 has a gorgeous display and is extremely light. Next, I spent a few minutes logging into to my Google account. Unlike my Nexus 10, which came pre-programmed with my Google login already inputted — but not password — I had to set up the Nexus 4 from scratch. Once I inputted my login information many of the settings and apps on my Nexus 10 quickly appeared on the device. But, I still didn't have cellular service.
Selecting a carrier was pretty straightforward since I already have a pre-paid T-Mobile plan, and the Nexus 4 ships unlocked. Changing the SIM card from one phone to the other, however, was not straightforward. My old SIM didn't fit into the Nexus, and after some Google-ing, and a trip to Radio Shack around the corner, I discovered that I actually had to go into a T-Mobile store and have them cut my SIM card to fit the Nexus 4 slot. I wouldn't be complaining about all of that except Google didn't print the micro SIM card requirement anywhere on the product page. With that done, I was finally able to use my new Nexus 4.
In the few days I've been testing it, I like what I've seen. The device is fast and responsive, scoring a very impressive 18,122 on AnTutTu's mobile benchmark software (click for some comparison scores). What that number meant for me was that all the productivity apps I use — email, Twitter, Skype, SMS messages, web browsing, etc. — were fast and responsive. And I was also able to play 3D games like Wind-up Knight, a favorite of mine for testing gameplay on mobile devices. The Nexus 4 shipped with the latest version of Android 4.2.2 and so far is a significant improvement over my old Samsung Galaxy S (the first version), which was a bug-ridden nightmare that I had problems with simple operations like making calls.
As I mentioned before the 4.7 inches seems large for a phone, which is a good thing. It's capable of 720p HD video playback, and I thought that was plenty for the size of the device. Netflix looked good, but with my Nexus 10 at arm's length, I didn't watch much streaming video. The display in reality is smaller than it sounds because of the software navigation bar, and notification bar. On my Nexus 10, I don't mind those bars taking up space, but that display is enormous in comparison. On the Nexus 4, though, I was perplexed that Google/LG didn't build hardware buttons into the phone as it would add about an inch without them. As I suspected when I reviewed Paranoid Android 3, the custom ROM makes a difference in terms of reclaimed screen real estate.
The phone is made of mostly either plastic or glass. Glass is an obvious choice for a display but I was puzzled LG selected the material for the back of the phone as well. I read reports of the back of the phone cracking if dropped, which is a shame. I suspect the glass is to support the wireless charging function, but neither Google or LG responded when I tried to get an answer for curious BYTE readers. The obvious solution is to buy a case for the back, but it's annoying to discover an out-of-the-box design flaw.
A few words about the under-the-hood hardware. The battery life is good. Without sustained use I got about a day out of the device on a single charge. Unfortunately, the battery isn't removable and if something goes wrong, it has to go back to the manufacturer, or Google.
The Nexus 4 is not for you if your priority is storage. Google offers two options the 8GB and 16GB models. My 8GB phone, after installing about 500MB of apps, and downloading some pictures has about 4.7GB remaining. Since there's no micro SD card slot, that's all the space I'm going to get. For me that's not a problem and I've never understood the need for 16+ GB of storage on a phone type device. Sure, there's an argument for long flights and travel times, but 16GB is large enough to hold about 10-12 hours of HD video, as well as countless books and magazines.
The last knock I have is the cellular modem. It's 3G, and there's no LTE option. I wondered about the reasoning especially given that the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S both were LTE/WiMax enabled. But, as it turned out lack of LTE didn't make much difference to me. Most of the time I'm either at home or at my office — both Wi-Fi enabled — and when I'm traveling I'm able to live with slightly slower data speeds. LTE would have been nice, but for less than half the cost of an iPhone 5 it's hard to expect a Cadillac. But, hey, it does have a barometer.
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Where Were You 30 Years Ago?
I am writing this from Phnom Penh, where I am planning a regional meeting called Energy Wise: Opportunities for Energy Efficiency Services in Cambodia and Indochina. The meeting will bring together CEOs and business leaders in the tourism, property development, and manufacturing sectors to highlight the benefits of outsourcing energy efficiency to energy service companies (ESCOs). It is part of a regional initiative funded by the Asian Development Bank to stimulate investment into energy-saving opportunities in Asia's fast-growing business sector.
What does this have to do with Home Energy? Well . . . my current international work, with the energy consultancy Nexant, traces back to an invitation I received in 1983 to join a crew of three (a physics student, an artist, and myself—a generalist and toxicologist at the California Department of Health) to start up an exciting new magazine called Energy Auditor & Retrofitter. I soon learned that there was an army of several thousand energy auditors across the United States showing homeowners how to reduce their energy bills. And that those energy auditors were starved for practical information on the performance of, and savings achieved by, common energy conservation technologies. We quickly developed an interesting portfolio of articles on everything from heat pump water heaters to demand water heaters to blower doors. I was like a pig in mud—able to escape from my day job doing risk assessments on hazardous chemicals and explore my goal of being a science writer—explaining complex concepts to the layperson.
We started from scratch, developing advertising, circulation, and editorial policies and practices based on imitation and instinct. In a couple of years, we had developed a small but loyal following within the home renovation and utility community, and had a circulation of 6,000 nationwide. And I finally convinced my boss that we should have a more user-friendly name. In 1986, we were rechristened Home Energy. What made the magazine work—and I think this is even more true today—was its laser-like focus on what works. How does building science and research translate into savings in actual houses? How do businesses make money off energy conservation? How do utilities (and energy service companies) design and deliver programs that yield benefits for the customer, and for the ratepayers?
Which brings us forward 30 years to today. I co-lead the clean-energy consulting business in Asia for Nexant, a global firm with 750 people worldwide and with 24 offices in the United States that delivers demand-side management (DSM) programs for electric and gas utilities. The current assignment I am working on in Cambodia is déjà vu all over again—I am leading an initiative to explain the benefits of ESCOs to corporate leaders in Southeast Asia. We are doing this through a series of executive breakfasts across the region, in which we describe ESCO business models, present case studies, and answer questions. And one of the most effective tools we have is well-researched, well-documented case studies—studies that were originally published in Home Energy; studies that show investment, payment, internal rate of return, guaranteed savings, and actual savings for energy conservation projects. Over the past three months, I assigned our research team to collect detailed information on case studies from projects delivered by ESCOs across the Southeast Asia region. It was surprisingly difficult to get beyond the ESCO's marketing materials and present a consistent set of facts and data that would allow comparison across the range of energy conservation projects—but then again, that is the value of rigorous fact-checking and analysis.
In the end, when you want to change minds and influence behavior, there is no substitute for a clearly written, complete, and accurate description of the technology, implementation, investment, and savings needed to do so. Home Energy has proved to be a very valuable training ground—for myself, and for countless others.
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What is Usher syndrome?
Usher syndrome is an inherited disorder that involves both a hearing impairment and a vision impairment called retinitis pigmentosa. Retinitis pigmentosa is a progressive degeneration of the retina that causes night blindness and reduction of peripheral vision (side vision). Some people also have problems with balance.
Usher syndrome is passed from parents to their children through genes.
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US type 1 (US1) characteristics include:
Totally deaf from birth
Do not usually benefit from hearing aids
Severe balance problems
Vision problems begin by age 10
Blindness eventually occurs
US type 2 (US2) characteristics include:
Moderate to severe hearing problems
Usually benefit from hearing aids
Use speech to communicate
Normal balance
Retinitis pigmentosa begins in teenage years
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Hearing problems develop in teenage years
Near normal balance
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Special tests assist in the diagnosis of Usher syndrome, including:
Electronystagmography (ENG) to find balance problems
Electroretinography (ERG) to find retinitis pigmentosa
Audiologic (hearing) evaluation and testing
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Your age, overall health, and medical history
Extent of the disease
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Expectations for the course of the disease
Your opinion or preference
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Career counseling
Devices, like hearing aids
Orientation and mobility training
Communication services
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These photos prove that stardom and cash can fix even the worst celebrity hairstyles and more
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Kim has had way too much surgery! She doesn't even look like herself! I love Katy Perry and she has become a quirky, but beautiful woman!
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Patrick Skene Catling wrote in his book The Chocolate Touch: "Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate." However, as all true chocolate lovers know, not all chocolates are created equal. There are chocolates and then there are CHOCOLATES!
Nestled in the midst of the sparkling glittering bejeweled jungle known as the diamond district; sits a truly priceless holding. Enter the rich, luxurious, intimately French walnut interior of Michel Cluizel chocolatier extraordinaire (584 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Adorning the shop are vitrines of some of the very finest chocolate made in the world. From cocoa bean beginning to the end of process, Michel Cluizel produces an array of kosher pareve chocolates with 85% and 99% cocoa content.
Through the unrelenting efforts of Jacques Dahan, the manager of the company's American operation, Michel Cluizel now produces a line of French pastries prepared fresh daily by an award winning French pastry chef.
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